- And can they say of any system of government tried that it proved other than a failure in the end?
- Nothing beastly can surprise me when done by a beast.
- He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
- You are going to abolish governing classes? An interesting experiment. I believe it was the original plan of creation, and it might have succeeded but for Cain.
- Should we be better governed if we replaced the present ruling class by another? Without some guarantee of that I should be the last to lift a finger to effect a change. And what guarantees can you give?
- Where there is power there will always be the abuse of it
- The inevitable, tragic corollary of civilization is populace.
- Power demands qualities which the populace does not possess, or it would not be populace. The inevitable, tragic corollary of civilization is populace.
- The tenure of power is power. We cannot dictate to those who hold it.
- Do you think that under money-changers and slave-traders and men who have waxed rich in other ways by the ignoble arts of buying and selling, the lot of the people will be any better than under their priests and nobles?
- I desire a society which selects its rulers, from the best elements of every class and denies the right of any class or corporation to usurp the government to itself-whether it be the nobles, the clergy, the bourgeoisie, or the proletariat. For government by any one class is fatal to the welfare of the whole.
- Abuses can be corrected by equity; and equity, if it is not found in the enlightened, is not to be found at all.
- Unless a nation is ruled by its best elements it must wither and decay
- Every human society must of necessity be composed of several strata. You may disturb it temporarily into an amorphous whole by a revolution such as this; but only temporarily. Soon out of the chaos which is all that you and your kind can ever produce, order must be restored or life will perish; and with the restoration of order comes the restoration of the various strata necessary to organized society.
- When we know all of whatever it may be, we can never do anything but forgive. That is the profoundest religious truth that was ever written. It contains, in fact, a whole religion-the noblest religion any man could have to guide him.
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